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TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY

The Contributor to undergo changesThursday, January 16. It is cold and

windy. Julio stands at his usual spot that

hes claimed as his every day for a year

now-next to the post ofce. Yellow tagaround his neck, newspapers in hand, he

gives a shy smile as cars go by, and people

walk in and out of the post ofce. A man

walks up, hands him some change, and Ju-

lio hands over a newspaper with a simple,

Thanks, man.

Every morning, nearly 400 vendors

hit the streets of Nashville and its sur-rounding suburbs to sell The Contributor,a newspaper that provides the homeless

and formerly homeless with an income.

According to the newspapers web-

site, The Contributor provides a diver-

sity of perspectives and information on

the condition of homelessness while high-

lighting the contributions of homeless andformerly homeless individuals.

Vendors are encouraged to submit

their works, such as stories and poems,

to the newspaper so that they can have a

voice and get their works published.

When a new issue comes out, ven-

dors buy the newspapers at the main of-

ce for $.25 apiece and then sell them for

$1, giving them a $.75 prot.

Beginning in April, though, the

twice-monthly newspapers customers

will see a price change. Vendors will pay

$.75 to buy the papers, and the papers will

be sold for a minimum of $2, plus any ad-

ditional tips customers may give. This will

leave the vendors with a prot of $1.25 as

opposed to the original $.75.

Customers will also see a fresh pa-

per each week, in hopes that they will stay

interested in the content of the paper and

continue to purchase it.

Weve outgrown our old sales mod-

el that we stuck to for six years. This new

model comes at a time when we need

more funds, Tasha Lemley, founding ex-

ecutive director of The Contributor, said.

Were hoping the weekly publication andthe increased cost to the customer will

offset any strain that they may feel from

the greater cost from us.

The price increase of the soon to be

weekly paper comes as a result of the de-crease of funds available to keep the pa-

per running. The Contributor has alwaysrelied heavily on personal donations to

the ofce, as they are a nonprot organi-

zation.

To raise money, the nonprofit

launched a fundraising campaign called

The High Five Campaign, in which custom-

ers are urged to give gifts of $5, $50, $500

or $5,000 in order to help keep the paper

running.

On the back of each newspaper is a

handprint advertising the campaign with

one simple goal at the bottom in small

letters: Less homelessness in 2014. Keep-ing The Contributor running is vital for

the vendors, as it is their source of income.

For Ronald Johnson, a man whos

been selling The Contributor for a year

now, the paper means more than just a

job to pass time.

It helps me survive, said Johnson.

For more information about The

Contributor or to donate, visit www.the-

contributor.org.

Christy Ulmet

Staff Writer

The problem with success: booming programs can mask university defciencies

From the fall of 2004 to the spring

of 2010 Treveccas School of Education

comprised nearly half of all of the grad-

uate school hours at Trevecca.

During its most recent peak, in

2004-2005, the graduate program had

10,377 of the 19,925 hours, or 52 per-

cent, of all the hours students were tak-

ing.

The School of Ed is the most

successful graduate program, and withthis success, Trevecca has expanded the

program and put more money into it.

However, four years ago, thestate of Tennessee ruled that it would

begin to cease pay scale raises based

on amount of education, meaning that

teachers would be less incentivized to

get their Masters degree.The healthy raise that they

would receive for their masters would

pay for (the cost of getting it) in just afew years, President Dan Boone said.

So what made that degree very lucra-

tive and attractive, now its somethingthat you only do if you feel like you

need that for your career progression.

So now the only reason you would need

that is if you were moving into schooladministration and thats a small num-

ber.

Due to the states ruling theSchool of Education has fallen at least

2.5 percent each of the past four years

and was down 15 percent from its high

when it had its fewest number of hours

(9,067) since 2003-2004 (7,650) last

year.

Its effecting the rest of us, be-

cause if you equate the revenue, were

talking $2 to $3 million a year now com-

pared to four years ago, David Caldwell,

executive vice president for nance and

administration said. Well, that money

has to be made up by something or it

comes off the bottom line and thats

just the way it would be for any pro-gram.

The problem

The problem is simple. When

the School of Education was doing well,

if other programs across the campus

were not growing it wasnt as notice-

able.

What were finding out now

is that we have many things that are

functioning well, but we dont have any

that are just growing, Caldwell said.

So were kind of in a stagnant growth

period where nothing is truly growing

so thats putting a lot of pressure on ex-

penses.

In September, TrevEchoes re-

ported on Treveccas need to rearrange

the budget after last years end of the

year decit, the rst decit in 22 years.

It was a small loss, $286,000 in a $48

million budget (.5 percent), but it fore-

shadowed future changes the university

would need to make.

The Board of Trustees said as

much last fall when they visited cam-

pus and arranged for a 3.1 percent cutacross the university. They wanted to

begin to reevaluate how programs were

given money, and less protable pro-

grams would be evaluated and possiblycut.

This could have been avoided

had troubled programs been evaluated

Tyler Whetstone

Editor-in-Chief

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Photo by Grifn DunnJulio sells his copies of The Contributor next to the downtown PostOfce.

The School of Ed percentage of the total graduate credit hours has slipped.

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Letter from the Editor

Two years ago this spring, I took a se-

mester away from Trevecca and its people

and routines and went to Washington, DC for

a four month period that changed my life.I grew in almost every way possible: ac-

ademically, journalistically, socially and even

my cooking skills improved.However, as I left my plush surround-

ings in Nashville, I took for granted some-

thing: a home church. It was a requirement

in DC to try multiple (six or seven) different

churches and denominations, just to get us

out of our religious shells and to give us per-

spective on different traditions.

I hated it.

The people were good, and I enjoyed

all but one or two of the services I attended,

but I wasnt growing, I wasnt progress-

ing and most importantly, I wasnt in a church home where I could grow with a com-munity.

Luckily I found my church home away from home.with two weeks left in the

semester.

I took for granted what having a church home can mean, and I know plenty of

people, seniors even, who have gone through the motions at worship service after

worship service longing for a place to call home.

University chaplain Tim Green said it best in the January 16 chapel, Dont let a

Christian university take the place of your home church.

Here is a (incomplete) listing of Nazarene churches within a short driving range

of Treveccas campus. My hope is that you are able to nd your church home away from

home from this list, or this will inspire you to make your own.

Nashville First Church of the Nazarene

510 Woodland St, Nashville, TN

(615) 255-1289

Blakemore Church of the Nazarene

2800 Belcourt Ave, Nashville, TN

(615) 297-5722

Gallatin First Church of the Nazarene

407 N. Water Street, Gallatin, TN

(615) 452-2101

Gateway Community

584 Franklin Road, Franklin, TN

(615) 595-0940

Hermitage Church of the Nazarene

4151 Saundersville Rd., Old Hickory, TN

(615) 847-3335)

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEFTyler Whetstone

COPY EDITORNicole Wood

STAFF WRITERSIsaiah Fish

Logan NewkirkTyler ComerJon Brooks

Autumn WoodardChristy UlmetSarah SuitsDillon JonesNadia SmithSarah Polk

Bailey BashamAbi Larimore

PHOTOGRAPHER

Grifn Dunn

DESIGN EDITORStephens Hiland

2- January 2014

Artsy majors should think about choosing a minor that will help

I once went on a date with a guy

(No, you dont know him. Stop looking

around the caf.) who wanted to be writer.Thats it.

He didnt want to work in pub-

lishing. He didnt want to look into jour-

nalism. It was the New York Times Best

Seller list or nothing.

Why didnt he teach during theday and hone his literary craft in his free

time, I asked, trying to place a few prac-

tical ideas into his head. No no, he in-

sisted. Even the slightest deviation fromthe pursuit of his Pulitzer Prize dreams

would send him hurtling towards the

siren call of a 40-hour work week in a

windowless cubical. Once you choose the

path most traveled by, he said, it wouldmake all the difference.

I dont think Robert Frost would

agree. The idea of the full-time author

is generally a fallacy, and anyone who

can eventually claim to be one arrived

at their position by way of a day job (orrich parents if youre Lord Byron or Emily

Dickinson).

Robert Frost worked at various

jobs delivering newspapers, working as

a factory laborer and farming before set-

tling on a career as a professor.

William Faulkner wrote As I Lay

Dying during the day before clocking

in as a night-shift supervisor at a powerplant.

Conversely, Joseph Heller

worked as a copywriter during the day

while writing Catch-22 at night.

Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot and Toni

Morrison all had/have day jobs.

So what happens to a dream de-

ferred?

Will the English major who picks

up a Marketing minor be guilty of giv-

ing into some anti-culture system, or will

they will be more realistically prepared

to enter the job market?

Is the Religion major who takes a

few IT classes hoarding heavenly mannathat will only fester and spoil tomorrow,

or are they being realistic about their fu-

ture in a time when at least 30 percent

of ministers are bi-vocational according

to the Nazarene Church?

Pursuing a sensible career doesnot have to come at the cost of a dream.

If anything, it could enhance it. After

all, how could Charlotte Bronte havecaptured the soul of Jane Eyre if Bronte

hadnt worked as a governess, herself?

And musicians, do not think that

you are exempt. Noel Gallagher paid the

bills through construction work before

Oasis, Gotye worked as a library assistant

and Sting worked as a tax ofcer. Appar-

ently these are all viable career paths ifyou want to enhance your frontman (or

woman) skills.

Langston Hughes tells us that adream deferred does not have to dry up

/ like a raisin in the sun. It also has thepower to explode.

So to all the artists out there, do

not be afraid to pursue your dreams! But

for your own sake, be prepared to take

the long way round.

As for that date, I paid our check

and sent him the Grateful Deads Keep

Your Day Job on Spotify. Even those oldhippies knew you had to keep your day

job, until your night job pays.

Nicole Wood

Copy Editor

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News Briefs A new pavilion for the baseball team was built down

the left eld line near the walking track and will be a new

picnic area where fans can watch the games. What origi-

nally looked like a location to house the rain tarps for

the ineld will eventually be tted with picnic tables and

space for other chairs. A fence will be constructed where

the pavilion was put in place to help shield onlookersfrom foul balls.

One of the many things on President Dan Boones

schedule this spring will be to make his rounds around

the city and the Nazarene Church to drum up support

for the proposed music building that the university haswanted to star t for several years now. Boone called his

gathering support the client phase, but said no major

decision has been made or is expected to be made on the

building.

Plant operations will be moving again, the third time

the island of mist toys will be moved in the past 10years, said Glen Linthicum, plant operations director. This

time, plant operations will move down the road into abuilding that is already there. The current spot will be

cannibalized, and everything down to the sockets in the

wall will go with plant ops when they move. Anything

we can take and reuse down there (is being taken) to

make it as cheap as it possibly can, Linthicum said.

Beginning next fall, plant operations will not issuefree paper towels as it does now in order to save money.

Plant operations currently provides both the paper tow-

els and toilet paper for buildings and dorms on campus.

Cutting the paper towels will save about $5,000 a year,

Linthicum said.

Social life director stepsdown

Last Wednesday, Mica Massie, Student Gov-

ernments social life director, resigned from her

position from SGAs executive council.

Monday night Athyn Galardi was approved

by SGA to assume role of social life director. Jas-mine Stiles-Barnes will assume junior class presi-

dent role vacated by Galardi.

Massie is the rst executive council mem-

ber to resign since 2009 according to Matthew

Spraker, dean of students for community life and

SGA faculty sponsor.

Micas done a lot of hard work, and we all

appreciate her hard work and her great events on

the year. Now were in a transition, Spraker said.

Her position is vacated, and were looking to llit with someone who meets the requirements of

the constitution.

According to the SGA constitution, the so-

cial life director position will be lled by appoint-

ment. Even though it is an elected position, elec-tions are not held to ll mid-semester openings.

Well have to appoint a new social life di-

rector, student body president Sydney Maxeld

said. So that will probably be done in the next

couple of weeks, though that person will only be

in ofce for a few months, because next years

elections will be coming up in March.

Were probably going to want someone

who has already been in SGA.

Massie was in charge of many of the events

that students have enjoyed this year including

Trojan Idol, Welcome Week and Welcome BackWeek, among others.

Massie declined to comment for the Trev-

Echoes story.

The social life directors position on SGA

awarded a $6,126 scholarship for work done on

the year. Massie will receive payments for the

weeks she has worked this semester, and her re-

placement will receive the remaining scholarship

for work done this semester.

The new social life director will be in charge

of putting together the remaining events on the

calendar including FNL, 72 Hour Film Festival andBoonaroo.

I think SGA is a lot of work , and sometimes

good students and sometimes good workers haveto step down from their positions because they

know its just not working, Maxeld said. So inthis case, I feel like thats kind of what happened.

Section 10 D In the event of a vacancy in an ofce of the SGA, the members of

the SGA shall have the power of interim appointment until a special election shall be held

(within three weeks after the vacancy occurs). The nominee elected to ll the vacancy shall

take ofce immediately to serve the term. During the second semester, the SGA shall have

the power to ll any vacancies in SGA, with the exception of the ASB President which must

go to a special election of the ASB.

Tyler Whetstone

Editor-in-Chief

Over the past two years, the I Am

Second movement has integrated intoTrevecca. The movement focuses on

putting Christ and others rst. By adopt-

ing this principle, students on Treveccas

campus are rising up together and be-

coming spiritual leaders.

I Am Second allows you to see

and hear about other peoples troubles,

Matthew Raines, senior, said. Seeing

other Christians give their testimonies

and talking about their struggles gaveme courage to talk about my own strug-

gles. Its so much easier to minister to

people now.

The movement began in Texas. It

is now spreading and has branches in

Dallas, Kansas City, Tri-State-Evansvilleand Nashville.

Through the videos of real lifepeople, athletes, actors, musicians and

business leaders, among others, sharing

their testimonies, I Am Second has giv-

en courage to countless people to liveshamelessly for God.

On Treveccas campus, the I Am

Second mindset continues to grow. It

has also brought athletes and non-ath-

letes together as they share a commoninterest.

The students have kind of taken

it over. Not only have they taken it over

here, but they have also gone home

and talked about it, Jared White, head

athletic trainer at Trevecca and faculty

sponsor for I Am Second. I have had

peoples parents call me, email me,

come into my ofce and say thank you

for I Am Second.

Several students had the oppor-

tunity to present their stories and talk

about what I Am Second had done for

them to the Board of Trustees last fall.

Its gotten a lot easier to get

people to talk about I Am Second. Previ-

ously I didnt want to approach people

about my faith, but its becoming a lot

easier. When I talk to people about I Am

Second, its so much easier to talk about

my life and problems and then integrate

how adopting the Live Second mindset

can help, senior Aubrey Black said.

I Am Second is an organic way for

students to understand what a relation-

ship with Christ looks like. There will be

struggles and difculties.

A fear across campus is that stu-

dents cannot talk about real problems

without someone ratting on them. What

were trying to do is say, hey, everyone

has problems, and were not focusing on

them, but instead were going to focuson the deep hole in your soul that needs

to be lled with Christ. If you take care

of that, everything else will fall intoplace, White said.

I Am Second attempts to show that

through a relationship with Christ your

life and desires will begin to change. In

doing this, Christianity will not be seen

as a set of rules and regulations, but in-

stead as a lifestyle to please Christ.

A common similarity between

many students is that they express their

appreciation for how relatable and ap-

plicable I Am Second is.

I Am Second meetings consist ofindividuals listening to each other, en-

couraging each other. Students involved

are able to share their struggles and

hardships without fear of judgment.

I struggle with things. My friends

struggle with things, Raines said. Were

becoming much more comfortable with

talking about those issues among our-

selves as we realize that more times

than not were going through the same

things.

I Am Second sweeps across campus, athletes and non-athletes come togetherHolland Clement

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all along, Caldwell said.

When a program like that takes

off and runs all of a sudden youve gotmore revenues and the risk for a school

is to let the success of one program cov-

er up the shortcomings of another one

so what we always need to be doing is

making sure every program is making

sense, Caldwell said.

Future

The School of Education is

working diligently to reverse the current

trend, and even with the down years it

is still owns the largest percentage of

graduate hours.

Suzann Harris, dean of the

School of Education, knows the statecould reverse its decision, and there

are murmurs that it might. Until then,

though, Harris continues to plug away.

Hopefully, teachers obtain an ad-

vanced degree not just for pay alone,Harris said. Teachers obtain Masters

degrees to hone their current pedagogi-

cal skills or to acquire new skills to pro-

vide them the credentialing needed to

move into positions teaching children

who are visually impaired or English is

not their rst language.

Even though it is losing moneycurrently, Trevecca wont make cuts in

the School of Education.

Instead, Caldwell and Harris both

wait for the day when the state changesits mind.

The challenge we have is whenyou have a big drop in a program that

has historically been so huge, is that you

dont know when the state might change

its licensure issues again, Caldwell said.

If the state were to reverse its

ruling, and Trevecca had cut all its pro-

fessors and infrastructure, it would be

like starting the program all over againwhich costs money.

So the balance is something like,

this program has ebbed, is it likely to

ow again at some point or is it going to

keep ebbing? Caldwell said. If so then

lets make a reduction, but its always acalculated risk.

You never know whats going to

happen, and thats why youve got to beresponsive.

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Photo by Grifn Dunn

This semester the National Praise

and Worship Institute at Trevecca began

using a converted warehouse on Parris

Avenue as a practice space.

According to Dr. Sam Green, direc-

tor of NPWIs Praise and Worship Certi-

cate Program, faculty and students refer

to the facility as Parris Place.

Parris Place boasts a warehouse

storage area converted into a video

studio. The studio features large, roll-

ing platforms designed to resemble and

function as classroom spaces. Classes

conducted in the studio can be recordedfor future use.

You get more for your money,Green said.

The sets feature such details as

simulations of living quarters back-

dropped by the Nashville skyline accom-

plished by a large graphic housed in a

large false window.

According to Randall Bayne, direc-

tor of NPWI, volunteers from the song-

writing community of Nashville as well

as from the national praise and worshipcommunity have helped with the stu-

dios construction and offered to assist

course instruction. Local businesseshave also donated materials for the stu-

dios construction.

Before Parris Place, NPWI students

practiced on the lowest oor of Tidwell.The students were so patient with not

having an adequate space, Green said,

but they came back, so we must be do-

ing something right.

Part of the Tidwell space has been

converted into NPWI ofce and instruc-

tional space, the latter named Studio

16 in honor of the programs inaugu-ral 16 students. Each of the original 16NPWI students returned to Trevecca for

their second semester, though according

to Green, one student is now majoring

in Religion.

The NPWI will be accredited by

the National Association of Schools of

Music by the end of summer. Treveccas

Department of Music is accredited by

NASM. According to Bayne, the NPWI

was ranked in the top ve worship pro-

grams in the country by Worship Leader

Magazine based on its curriculum alone,

receiving its ranking before students

had arrived to Trevecca.NPWI students have 24-hour ac-

cess to Parris Place. Each student uses

a personalized key code when entering

the building.

I love that the building is our own,

and that we have the space, time, and

equipment to use without worry of hav-

ing to compete with other students forthose things, Alyson Roberts, a NPWIstudent, said.

Freeing up practice space in Wake-

eld for students of Treveccas Depart-

ment of Music was a benet of openingParris Place, Green said.

I like not having to worry about

getting asked to not use certain re-

sources due to miscommunication, etc.

Roberts said.

According to Green, Parris Place

is serving as a temporary need fulll-

ment.

Ideally, the program would have

practice space on campus, but for nowits meeting the needs of students, Greensaid.

We really appreciate administra-

tions support in nding us a space, saidGreen.

Dillon Jones

Staff Writer

Praise and Worship Institute begin to settle into warehouse on Paris

CMA.EDU to bring country music here

Treveccas newest club, CMA.EDU, is

bringing country music to campus.

The club, which is part of the CountryMusic Association, helps to represent CMA,

and in return students receive networkingopportunities, educational experiences and

leadership training in the country music in-

dustry.

A majority of events this semester will

give students an opportunity to talk with

professionals in the music business indus-

try and build some connections for life after

graduation.

Even though the club is mostly about

country music, students do not have to be a

music major to get involved.

The club has more than 100 members

all of different majors. There will be panelsand concerts for students to attend which

will cater to each major.

The hope in the panels and the guest

speakers is to get people that will benet a

slew of different majors, because most of

our members are not music business majors

or commercial music majors, Zach Farnum,

sophomore and vice president of CMA.EDU,

said.

For senior Nikki Bretchel, music itself

was what drew her to be a part of the club

It's a great social experience to learn

more about country music and to be aroundpeople who share similar music tastes,

Bretchel said.

In the future, club leaders hope

to be able to bring some big name country

singers on campus to perform. Until then,

spreading the music is the goal.We can never get country artists to

come because we do not have the budget.

Country artists are really expensive, Far-

num said. So, my hope is that we will have

more of a country music presence on cam-

pus through this club.

Sophie Green, freshman and secretary

of CMA.EDU, is excited about the future of

the club and having some country singerscome to visit, she said.

Helping with CMA stuff and being

able to volunteer for that stuff is awesome

for the club, but it is also awesome for a

personal experience to be a part of that.

That is the future of the club, Green said.For more information on how to get

involved with CMA.EDU visit

www.facebook.com/CMAEDUTNU.

Nadia Smith

Staff Writer

Waggoner Library

introduces FLOW, thenew RefWorks.

Check out Flows features fromhttp://libguides.trevecca.edu/fow

Photo by Tyler Whetstone

Photo by Tyler Whetstone

Inside Paris Place, NPWI has two lm sets on wheels

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If you read the 2013 Presidents Report, it

should come as no surprise that Trevecca is playingup its location.

Nearly every other page has the phrase A

Christian University in the heart of Nashville in bigbolded letters.

Trevecca has taken the approach many other

colleges and universities have taken in drawing peo-

ple in through the location.

In 2012, Nashville soared to number one on

TripAdvisors Top 15 U.S. Destinations on the Rise.

In 2013, Nashville hit Forbes Magazines Best Cit-

ies for Jobs list. Business Insider voted Nashville

number nine on its Hottest American Cities of the

Future list in 2012. With Nashville in the spotlight,

Trevecca is hoping to grab some of that attention.

Nashvilles a pretty hot city right now, and

wed be silly not to use that as a major tool to bring

students to this great university, Matt Toy, director

of marketing and communications, said. This is just

the beginning.

The marketing department will be launching

a video this coming March to continue Treveccas

Nashville marketing campaign.We see a lot of students on social media say

Man I cant wait to come study in Nashville. Were

seeing that more and more, Toy said.

Greg Steward, admissions counselor, also not-

ed the student interest in the city.

I go to college fairs all the time. When I tellsomeone were located in downtown Nashville, they

get really excited about the school, Steward said.

Treveccas marketing department is pushing

the location for numerous reasons.

We really want to embrace the city beyond

just the cool music side thats hard to ignore. Thereare so many needs in this city that we can connect

to, Toy said. Some people view Treveccas locationas a negative. But really, its our greatest opportu-

nity. We can walk outside the doors of our campus

and nd real need, and that is an education in itself.Bill Haslam, Governor of Tennessee, added his

input on the university in the Presidents Report aswell.

Trevecca is an incredibly valuable asset for

Tennessee. From a strong focus on academics, toministry involvement in the Nashville community,

to expansion of degree-completion programs that

help working adults complete their degree, Trevecca

has developed and will continue to develop youngleaders for Tennessee and the world, Haslam said.

With Treveccas student involvement in out-

reach ministries around the city, the schools loca-tion is shaping young adults to help meet the needsof those around them.

Beyond the fact that were two miles from

Broadway, were two blocks from people in need.

And thats pretty signicant, Toy said.

Christy Ulmet

Staff Writer

New marketing campaign plays up Nashville

Last May, while most graduating

seniors were checking off ticket listsfor who they could and could not invite

to graduation, JP Nyadaro was trying to

piece enough cash together to get hisparents on a plane to Nashville.

Nyadaro, a former Trojans bas-

ketball player from Kenya, didnt have

enough money. He was out of options.Nyadaro worked for Glen Linthi-

cum at plant operations, and Linthicum

found out what he was trying to do. Lin-

thicum sent out a text to vendor com-

panies that work at Trevecca, and by the

next day he told Nyadaro he had enoughmoney to cover the difference for his

family, about $1,500.

It was a really big thing for me

because that was the first time my

parents got to see me graduate, saidNyadaro, who now works as a care coor-

dinator at Room in the Inn in Nashville.

In Kenya we dont have graduations for

high schools, so this was the rst time

they were able to see me graduate from

a school.

It meant a lot to me so (Glenn)

helping me was really a huge blessing.

Nyadaro is one of many students

that Linthicum and other faculty mem-

bers at Trevecca have been able to help

out in small ways in times when they

needed it most.

Now, Trevecca is establishing a

new committee, the Special Needs Com-

mittee, for cases just like these.

There have been many instanceswhere students different needs have

been identied and faculty, administra-

tors, staff members and vendors nd out

about it and they want to help, Peggy

Cooning, vice president for external re-

lations, said. Up to this point, that has

kind of happened under the radar.

Now, a committee made up ofLinthicum, Cooning, Tom Middendorf,

director of the Center for Leadership,

Calling and Service and Chuck Seaman,

director of nancial services, will seekout special situations and oversee the

giving process so that donors can be

recognized if they so choose and so that

they can receive tax credit for their gift,

Cooning said.

The fund currently has $660 in it

according to Seaman. The committee

will accept suggestions but will not al-

locate the money like a scholarship. It is

simply to help those who need it most,

Cooning said.

Its one thing to give $20,000 to

athletics, and again, it sounds harsh and

I dont mean for it to, its important and

youve got to have that, Linthicum said.

But when youre giving something very

specic to a student who has a need it

doesnt have to be great. It can be sev-eral hundred dollars. That makes more

of an impact

Over Christmas break, Linthicumfound a couple of vendors to help pay

the rent for a student in University Ter-

race Apartments when they were going

to be evicted and help put food on the

table for a few students when they had

no means of getting food themselves,since the cafeteria and their campus

jobs were on break.

A lot of these needs have been

specically lled by vendors who work

on campus: the lawn guys or the clean-

ing company, among others.

These vendors that you see

across campus sometimes may look like

Joe scruffy, or the guy who is banging on

the wall at seven oclock in the morning

trying to x something and waking you

up, Linthicum said. Know that those

guys arent just doing that, theyre buy-ing into the overall mission, and theyre

investing in students.One of the hopes with this fund is

that alumni and members of the com-

munity would be interested in donatingto help students as they face certain

hardships. Current students would even

be invited to help donate where they

could, Cooning said.

Gifts of all sizes will be welcomed.

You want your Trevecca experi-

ence to be transformative, and some-

times situations happen that are crisis

points and they could affect you from

this point forward, so your memory of

Trevecca might be that crisis point,

Cooning said. But, if someone is able

to intervene and help you through that

circumstance then thats going to be the

Trevecca that students remember.

Tyler WhetstoneEditor-in-Chief

Special needs fund created for the small emergencies in life

The cafeteria isnt

the only place on campus

to get a meal.On campus, Trevecca

offers several differentmeal options for students.

Meal exchanges in The

Hub and The Cube and exdollars for the snack shop

are available to almost anystudent with a meal plan,

yet oftentimes they are

forgotten about.Each meal plan

comes with a certain num-

ber of exchange meals,

cafeteria manager Donna

Cavin said.

The unlimited plan

includes 30 exchanges, the

commuter meal plan has

15 and 10 come with the

average meal plan, Cavin

said.

While sometimes a

burrito or chicken ngers

sounds better than what ison the menu in the cafete-

ria, using exchanges is notalways as fast or as easy as

a stop by the cafeteria.

Its not always as

convenient to use all of my

exchange meals because of

time constraints. Going to

The Hub means waiting in

line for food for at least 10

minutes, Abigail Larimore,freshman, said. While the

nachos and quesadillas

are denitely more to my

liking, I just dont usually

have that sort of time to

spare. Because of that, at

the end of the semester I

had 25 unused exchanges

left on my account.

Like Larimore, many

students found that they

were left with far too many

unused meal exchanges atthe end of the fall semes-

ter.

While many exchange

meals go unused each se-

mester, there are even

more students who do not

use their ex dollars.

Cavin also mentionedthat the money spent on

these flex dollars does

not roll over to the next

semester, so you either use

it or you lose it.

Bailey Basham

Staff Writer

Meal exchanges left over

Photo courtesy of JP NyadaroJP and Courtney Nyadaros family pose with them after graduation last May.

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Upcoming Trojan home gamesMens and womens basketball

Feb. 8 2 and 4 p.m. vs. Kentucky Wesleyan College

Feb. 13 6 and 8 p.m. vs. Central State University

Feb. 15 2 and 4 p.m. vs. Cedarville University

Baseball

Feb. 7 1 p.m. vs. Maryville College

Feb. 8 12 p.m. vs. Maryville College and Maryville College

Feb. 11 3 p.m. vs. Tusculum College

Feb. 19 1 p.m. vs. Kentucky State University and Kentucky State University

The Trevecca womens bas-

ketball team is off to a quick start in

G-MAC play. The ladies sport an overall

record of 9-7, but six of those winshave come since conference play

has started. Their 6-1 conference re-cord ties them for rst place in the

G-MAC with nine games remaininguntil the conference tournament.

We have really grown sincewe started conference play. I think

our rough out of conference games

prepared us to get off to a quick

start in G-MAC play, head coach

Gary Van Atta said.The Lady Trojans posted a

record of only 3-6 in non-confer-

ence games, many of them againstschools that were ranked or receiv-

ing votes in the polls.

Its probably the hardest non-

conference schedule weve had since

Ive been coaching here, Van Atta

said.

The Lady Trojans have over-

come a major lack of size, lack of ex-

perience and several injuries already

this season. The tallest player on the

team comes in at 60, and they are a

team that is led by only six upper-

classmen. Injuries have also been a

problem to this point in the season

as senior guard Rachel Bollinger has

a concussion, and sophomore for-ward Kylie White has suffered with

whiplash she got while playing in a

game.Weve overcome a lot this sea-

son and have grown to be a pretty

good team. They are really young,and we are the smaller team almost

every time we take the court, Van

Atta said.The Lady Trojans have the No.

1 ranked defense in points allowed

in G-MAC play as of January 22. TheTrojans are ranked in the top half of

several other categories, as well.

They care, they work hard andplay hard, Van Atta said of his girls.

I never have to get upset with this

team about not practicing hard or

playing hard.

The new track program at

Trevecca is of f and running.

Trevecca competed in the rstindoor track event in school history

on January 10th and 11th at the third

annual UAB Blazer Invitational.

The best finish at the eventwas a second place finish in the

Mens 5,000 meter run open by Ben

Moroney. Josh Winskie nish third in

the same event. Moroneys time of

15.54 was the fastest time run in the

5,000 race since the program was

restarted.

Getting the program started

hasnt been too difcult, head coach

Austin Selby said. Our kids love to

run and work hard; the only difcul-

ty has been the lack of a facility on

campus to train in.

Treveccas track team and cross

country team are one in the same,

meaning that to compete in one,athletes must also participate in the

other. This could cause problems in

recruiting an athlete that may justwant to participate in one or the

other, Selby said.We have some kids that dont

have much experience running track.

About one fourth of the team hadnever competed in an indoor track

event until our first meet, Selby

said. Recruiting hasnt been dif-

cult, but it is much easier to get crosscountry runners to run track, where-

as youll never get a pure track guyto run distance.

While the UAB Blazer Invita-

tional didnt record team results,

Treveccas runners had a number ofrunners place in the upper and mid-

dle of the pack in most of the events

they participated in.

Were right where I wanted us

to be, Selby said. If you, as a coach,

are calculated in your training, thenyou should know what your athletes

are going to do. That does not nec-

essarily always happen, but it hasbeen happening fairly regularly for

our runners.

The Trojans will compete in

their second event, the Tennessee

State Invitational, on February 1.

sports6 - January 2014

Tyler Comer

Staff Writer

Track and Field starts with a bang

Tyler Comer

Staff Writer

Womens basketball begins strongin G-MAC

The Trojans are, to this point, strug-

gling through a season mired by youth andinjury.

Through January 27 the Trojans post

a record of 5-13 and are 2-6 in G-MAC play.

One of the bigger struggles for the team

has been playing away from the Trojan

Fieldhouse where they have a record of

1-9.

When youre playing on the road

you cant let mistakes linger, and you cant

waste opportunities by missing free throws

or turning the ball over, coach Sam Harris

said.

The Trojans have played better at

home however, where they have a record

of 4-4. They have only played one game

with a full complement of players to this

point in the season.

Sophomore guard Nick Drake missed

the entire rst semester with a hand in-jury and junior forward Jordan Miles has

missed the last few games with an ankle

injury. There have also been a multitude of

lingering injuries to different players that

have caused them to miss a game or twoat different point in the season.

Playing together is so important for

a young team in order to develop chem-

istry, and we really havent been able todo that to this point in the season, Harris

said.

Harris hopes to have a fully healthy

roster by the time the G-MAC tournament

rolls around in March

The other problem for the team has

been its youth and immaturity. There are

no seniors on the team, and only four ju-

niors.

This is the rst class weve had in a

while that hasnt had a senior, Harris said.

No one, to this point, has stepped up and

taken over the leadership role, and that

has hurt the maturity process of the team.

The Trojans have seven G-MACgames remaining on the schedule.

Tyler Comer

Staff Writer

Mens basketball struggles with youth

Photo courtesy of Greg RuffPhoto courtesy of TNU Athletics

Photo courtesy of Greg Ruff

Ben Moroney competes in Treveccas rst season of track.Byron Sanford dribbes down the court against Davis & Elkins College.

Megan Kilburn goes up for a shot against Ohio Valley University.

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Upcoming Nashville concertsBailey Basham

Staff Writer

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feature8- January 2014

Lauren Hart stretched out her

arms, pretending to be an airplane as

she walked beside her horse, making the

young boy who was in the saddle smile.Hart, a Trevecca freshman, has

been volunteering every Saturday help-ing local kids with disabilities ride ther-

apeutic horses in Franklin.

For the past four months, Hart, anelementary education major, has served

as a sidewalker at Saddle Up, a nonprof-

it, therapeutic horse riding organization

that serves children with disabilities.

Hart goes in for her lessons at 2

p.m. and usually gets done at 5 p.m.

When it comes to working withspecial needs children, Hart does not

mind giving up some of her Saturday.

I have a lot of time and taking

two lessons every Saturday that only

last an hour each isnt a lot out of theday, Hart said.

Over the summer, Hart decided

she wanted to volunteer at some place

that helped children. She had to decide

between working for either Deer Run or

Saddle Up. After spending some time in

prayer, she made the decision to give

Saddle Up a try. Before her rst lesson

she gave God an ultimatum. She want-

ed there to be a need for her Spanish

speaking abilities.

I told God that I wanted to speak

Spanish my rst lesson. If I didnt speak

Spanish that rst lesson, if it didnt go

well, I wouldnt work there, Hart said.

She spoke Spanish five minutes

into her rst lesson. It was obvious thatGod wanted her to work there, she said.

As a sidewalker, Harts job is to

walk beside the horse during a lesson to

ensure the safety of the rider. Students

who ride the horses have disabilitiesthat include autism, down syndrome and

cerebral palsy.

As a sidewalker you have to know

whats OK, whats not OK and whats go-ing on, Hart said.

For Hart, when a lesson goes suc-

cessfully it is rewarding.

Having a successful lesson is like

a high for me. I love being able to pourinto the rider and his or her family, Hart

said.

But not all lessons are what Hart

would call successful. She sometimes

has to be rm with students in her role

as the person responsible for their safe-

ty inside the arena.She recalls one lesson with Eric, a

10-year-old boy, which required her to

take away his music privilege because

he was not following directions.He wouldnt steer his horse at all.

He ended up not listening whatsoever,Hart said.

Hart turned off the music and told

Eric that if he wanted it back then he

would have to steer his horse.He would not do it.

Eric was crying. He wanted his

music so badly, but he would not steerhis horse, Hart said.

It took 20 minutes before Eric de-

cided to cooperate and got his music

back.

She was not angry with Eric; she

was frustrated because she knows thatEric knew how to do it.

It is not always tough working

with Eric though. His last lesson wentsmoothly.

There are exercises that the chil-

dren do during their lessons to loosen

their bodies up. Eric did a good job withall of his stretches.

He did very, very well, and I am so

glad he did it that well, Hart said.

Learning these skills has made

Hart a valuable volunteer.

Shes been a big help. Shes herevery regularly. Its only been a couple of

months but shes a huge help, Kim Ki-

line, the volunteer services director at

Saddle Up, said.

Erics father also said that he likes

Hart.

I like her. They dont want par-

ents in the arena as a general rule, so

its hard to know what goes on, but the

reports seem ne. She seems just ne,he said.

In the future, Hart said that she

hopes to become a sub for lessons in-

stead of being regularly assigned to the

same children.I like subbing more because it

varies. Its not the same thing over and

over again. It keeps it interesting, Hartsaid.

The main reason Hart chose to

work at Saddle Up is because she hopesto work with special needs children as a

future job.

I want to become a teacher. I

want to one day be able to teach bothchildren with special needs and children

without, Hart said. Ive grown up work-

ing with special needs children in differ-

ent aspects of my life. Its rewarding.

For information on how to vol-unteer at Saddle Up, visit their website

www.saddleupnashville.org.

Nadia Smith

Staff Writer

Freshman saddles up to help kids with special needs on weekends

Goats and pigs are the newest res-

idents of the Trevecca Urban Farm.

The farm, a teaching lab for the

J.V. Morsch Center for Social Justice, now

has six goats, ve pigs, two dogs and 20

chickens according to Jason Adkins, en-

vironmental project coordinator.The animals came from Falling

Star Farm, a local sustainable farm that

focuses on rare breed preservation.

The goats are Tennessee miniature

fainting goats that can be milked, but

their milk is not as high of quality as

goats that are bred to be milked, Adkinssaid.

Adkins plans to trade one of the

male buck goats that the urban farm

currently has for a dairy buck goat in or-

der to breed more dairy goats that can

be milked.

Adkins said that anyone who

wishes to go see the animals may do

so through the fence. Those that work

with the animals do not want others to

go through the fence to the animals fora few reasons, mainly to keep the ani-

mals from getting too stressed.

Stressed animals leads to sick

animals, Adkins said.

The pigs are Juliana pigs, which

are used mostly as pets, Adkins said. They are good for clearing gar-

den beds as well as great composters.However, they are not used for meat.

The farm also obtained a surprise

pig that turned up January 24.

We showed up Friday and it was

just here, Adkins said. New animalscan sometimes carry disease that the

others are not used to.

Due to this, the surprise addition

has been set apart from the rest of theanimals.

The two dogs that are new to the

farm are both Great Pyrenees.

Theyre bred to protect the ani-

mals, David Caldwell, vice president for

nance and administration said.They do just that.

One of the dogs constantly scans

the skies, mostly for hawks, to protectthe chickens, goats and pigs, Caldwell

said. The other dog watches the ground

for anything that could come around.

Last year the farm lost six to 12

chickens to hawks or neighborhood

dogs. The Great Pyrenees should help

keep that number down.

The nal newcomers to the live-

stock are the new chickens.

These are all unique breeds, in-

cluding the chickens which are referred

to as Rockstar Chickens, Caldwell says.

Treveccas Urban Farm is increas-

ingly working with high school and mid-

dle school age children mainly to teach

them.

Adkins welcomed any who wished

to volunteer with the animals. Adkinsand others work on the farm from morn-

ing to lunch ve days a week and wouldaccept students who want to see the

animals.

The animals will be as social as

we let them, Adkins said. Chickens rest

on peoples shoulders, pigs st bump

with their snouts and goats let peoplecarry them.

Adkins and his team of students

and workers are using their knowledgeto serve the church internationally as

well.

The Nazarene Church has asked

us to do some work teaching, or agricul-

ture advising, around the world, Adkinssaid.

New animals join Treveccas urban farm communityLogan Newkirk

Staff Writer

Photo by Nadia Smith

Photo courtesy of TNU Marketing

Photo courtesy of TNU Urban Farm

Lauren Hart leads a young boy attending his Saddle Up lesson.

Treveccas newest visitors are small, round and great for holding.

One of the six goats that live on campus.